Does electronic stewardship work?

<span class="paragraphSection"><div class="boxTitle">Abstract</div>Faced with national requirements to promote antimicrobial stewardship and reduce drug-resistant infections, community hospitals are challenged to make the best use of existing resources. Eighteen months after building antibiotic decision support into our electronic order platform, high-risk antibiotic use decreased by 83% (<span style="font-style:italic;">P</span> < .001) at our community hospital. Hospital-acquired <span style="font-style:italic;">Clostridium difficile</span> infections declined 24% (<span style="font-style:italic;">P</span> = .07).</span>
Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research